Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only the forerunner. The 1943 planes will have bigger bomb loads (probably ten tons or better), longer ranges, even more anti-fighter fire power. It was to such planes that President Roosevelt referred in part last week when he announced a revision of the U.S. aircraft program. The bulk of U.S. bomber production next year will probably still be in planes like the Fortress and Liberator, but newer types should be going into service before summer...
...famed poetical solipsist who wears the world in his hat. For many years this startling person has spent his normal working hours disguised as a lawyer-employe of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he is vice president. Betweenwhiles Stevens, now aged 63, has kept adding to the bulk and scope of his poetical testament...
Senator Lodge has opposed the bulk of New Deal policies, domestic and foreign. He has tried to straddle the political fence has shied from important and controversial bills and in general has tried to identify himself with every group, publicly refusing to take a stand of his own. But in the senatorial voting of which the Senator has taken a part his true political complexion is unmistakable. He is not liberal Republican under the able leadership of Mr. Willkie. He is in spirit, if not in words, one of the "Old Guard...
Virginia Bruce is still anemic despite her long rest from film activity, and what acting she does is equally pale. The leading man isn't worth notice, and Costello has, by dint of sheer bulk, crowded Abbott almost off the screen. Briefly, it's Abbott and Costello slightly worse than usual, funny or nauseating, according to your taste. Unconfirmed rumors from Universal's lot say that Dottie Lamour can have her old job back now, while June Priesser must step out and let the comedians go ahead with a new co-ed campus picture to be entitled, "Sweater...
...through with the Washington airport greetings as fast as he decently could. His stop at the Carlton Hotel did not even give him a chance to straighten his tie or give his pants a badly needed hitch. Under orders from the Commander in Chief to hurry, he crammed his bulk into a limousine, lumbered out in front of the Executive Offices and for a moment faced a battery of cameras. Then Wendell Willkie went in to see the President...